Lot 184
Autograph letters and notes including: THIS LOT NO LONGER CONTAINS THE MATTHEW HENRY SERMON, IT IS NOW IN LOT 200
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
A.L.S. from Dr. Magee, Archbishop of Dublin, Jan 31 1812; Porteous, Bishop of London, one page, 13 Aug. 1807, to Mrs More; Thomas Robinson, author of "Scripture Characters", 3 pages, 20 Jan. 1800; Matthew Henry, (1662-1714), 12 page sermon, [c.1695]; Thomas Arnold, headmaster, part of a letter with clipped signature, 30 June 1833; Mary Arnold, 3 page A.L.S. to Mr Hodgson, 18 Aug., 1873; Thomas Robert Malthus, clipped signature dated 1828; William Howley, Bishop of London, 3 page A.L.S., 28 Aug., 1819; John Ramsay M'Culloch (1789-1864), economist and statistician, discussing the East India and slave trade, 3 pages, torn with loss of two words, Edinburgh, 21 Nov., 1822; Joseph Woolf (1795-1862), missionary, two page A.L.S. requesting a venue to lecture of his journey to Bokhara, 21 April 1848; General Sir H. Smith (1787-1860), 4 page A.L.S., Cawnpore, India, 14 Aug. 1846; General Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833), 2 page A.L.S., undated; Sir Robert Montgomery (1809-1887), Lt. Governor of the Punjab; George Russell Clerk (1800-1889), Governor of Bombay, 3 page A.L.S., 25 July 1861; Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Printed Order signed by Walpole requesting £500 payment from the most Noble Sarah Dutchess [sic] Dowager of Marlborough, the Rt. Hon. Francis Earl of Godolphin and the Rt. Hon. William Lord Sundon, executors of the late most Noble John Duke of Marlborough, 1740; and a quantity of other letters, in half morocco albums, and an album of facsimile signatures (3)